Intrusion Prevention Systems

Interceptor 1000

Company: Reflex Security
Pricing: $35,000
The Reflex Interceptor 1000 is an IPS with a twist. This appliance not only has a highly capable IPS with protection for such vectors as intrusions, malicious content, DoS, and anomalies, but it also can be equipped with gateway virus protection and many other features.
 

IDS/IPS

Company: SecurityMetrics
Pricing: $6,000
This device is like a slightly stripped down version of a unified threat manager (UTM). The SecurityMetrics IDS/IPS not only includes IDS/IPS functionality, but it is also a vulnerability assessment tool and it can be configured to be a firewall and router.
 

DefensePro, Version 3.10

Company: RadWare
Pricing: starts at $12,500; the InSite appliance is $2,000 for software-only version or $10,000 for the appliance
The RadWare DefensePro is an appliance-based product that requires the RadWare InSite appliance for configuration and management. Together these two products are feature-rich and offer the most comprehensive functionality we’ve found.
 

CounterSnipe Technologies Active Protection Software 3.0

Company: CounterSnipe Technologies
Pricing: $5,000
This software-only product can be deployed as an inline IDS, inline IPS, or deployed off of a tap. Additionally, it can provide detailed threat and asset correlation using its comprehensive surrounding asset knowledge module (SAK).
 

NetScreen-IDP 500 (Special report Intrusion prevention)

Company: NetScreen Technologies
Pricing: NS-IDP 500 - includes management server and IDP sensor: $34,995

The IDP-500 is a turnkey appliance-based system which uses as many as eight detection methods to detect malicious network traffic. This Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) System is capable of operating in in-line mode as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) or as a passive Intrusion Detection System (IDS) attached to ...

 

McAfee Entercept (Intrusion Prevention group test)

Company: Network Associates
Pricing: $1,295 (standard agent); $1,595 (web server agent); $2,995 (database agent); $4,995 (management server)

The Entercept system, now acquired by Network Associat-es, has in its latest version bought a major revision to how software runs in the enterprise.

 

BeadWindow! 100 (Intrusion prevention group test)

Company: BeadWindow!
Pricing: $11,995
This appliance has a very defined procedure for installation that must be carefully followed.
 

Attack Mitigator IPS 2400 (Special report Intrusion prevention)

Company: Corero Network Security
Pricing: List price for the IPS 2400 is $80,000

Top Layer's Attack Mitigator IPS is actually a family of ASIC-based Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (NIPS), with blocking and control against certain types of cyber attacks. The product tested is the Attack Mitigator IPS 2400, a combination of multiple Attack Mitigator IPS 1000 and load-balancer units.

 

TippingPoint UnityOne-1200 (Special report Intrusion prevention)

Company: TippingPoint Technologies
Pricing: UnityOne IPS pricing starts at US$24,995 list (200 Mbps, (2) 100Mbps Ethernet segments); SMS pricing starts at US$9,995 list. Tested device was UnityOne-1200, US$64,995 list (1.2 Gbps, (4) Gbps Ethernet

Based on custom-designed high-speed security processors, the UnityOne network-based Intrusion Prevention Appliances (IPA) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) are designed to stop cyberattacks in the network before such attacks can infect, damage or destroy core IT assets.

 

Sentivist IPS Sensor 500 (Group Test: Intrusion prevention)

Company: NFR
Pricing: from $13,000

NFR's Sentivist IPS uses a combination of hardware sensors, and software for managing. It ships with a Java-based management console, which is good for monitoring and configuring individual sensors.